# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220070870045` · 03/19/2007 · Eastern Associated Coal LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall to the walkway or working surface
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** ANKLE
- **Days lost:** 68
- **Mine experience:** 0.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Eastern Associated Coal LLC
- **Mine:** [4601456](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601456)
## Narrative

Employee stated that he was walking thru crosscut 2-3 toward a sump to see if the 480v sump pump was working. While doing so he caught the toe of his right foot on a yellow hook rope that was hooked to piece of old curtain laying on the mine floor. He fell straight forward to the mine floor, hyperextending his right ankle.

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